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Considerable additions have also been made to the collection of Brachlopoda. 



In the Supplemental Room. A series of forty very large Ammonites and Nautili have 

 been carefully developed and cleaned, and subsequently identified, named, and registered. 

 A series of large slabs of Orthoceratites Crinoids, Corals, &c., have likewise been named, 

 labelled, and registered, and, together Avith the above-named specimens, arranged upon 

 the tops of the Pier and Wall-cases in this Room. 



A series of Crustacea, from the Lebanon and from the Greensand of England, together 

 with a number of Trilobites, have been duly registered, and placed in the Pier-cases and 

 drawers in this Room appropriated to the Arthropoda. 



A number of slabs from the Yoredale Carboniferous, Silurian, and Cambrian rocks of 

 Britain, the Potsdam sandstone, ka., in America, covered with worm-tracks and crusta- 

 cean markings, have been prepared by the mason, and subsequently labelled, and placed 

 in the Pier-case in this Room. 



A large number of Palasozoic Corals have been registered, labelled, and added to the 

 collection of Fossil Corals, placed in drawers in this Room. 



Rooms in Basement. The Vertebrate remains preserved in these Rooms have been 

 examined, assorted, arranged in drawers, and labelled. 



The Manuscript of a Catalogue of British Fossil Crustacea, comprising 1,248 genera 

 and species, has been completed, and is now in the printer's hands. 



The time of the mason has been chiefly employed in the development from the matrix 

 of the remainder of Mr. Bain's and Dr. Atherstone's South African Fossils ; upon those 

 recently acquired from the Purbeck Beds of Swanage, and the series of large Ammonites 

 not heretofore properly developed from the matrix. 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 



Vertebrata : — 



Mammalia - _____ 739 



Aves -___-_-- 40 



Reptiha ------- 273 



Pisces _-__--_ 558 



1,610 



Incerlebrata : — 



Crustacea and Insecta _ _ - _ 367 



Annelida ------- 38 



Mollusca .------ 7,869 



Polyzoa -- - - - - - 94 



Echinodermata - - - - - -1,029 



Zoophyta-Zoantharia - - - - - 415 



Protozoa and Rhizopoda _ - _ - 293 



■ 10,105 



Plant Remains - -.- - - - ___ _ 709 



Total number of Specirnens registei'ed - - - - 12,424 



The number of visits from Students during the past year was 596. 



Acquisitions. 

 The principal additions to the Department during the past year are as follows : — 



I. By Donation. — A. Vertebkata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — A collection of Mammalian remains comprisingtho genera Sus, E/ephas, 

 Equus, Ibex, Bos, Cervus, Rhinoceros, and various carnivora obtained from the Genista 

 Cave, and other caverns and fissures in Windmill Hill, Gibraltar, by the late Captain Fox 

 Brome, then Governor of the Military Prison, Gibraltar (1863-67). Forwarded, with 

 the approval of the War Office, upon the recommendation of Professor George Busk, F.R.S., 

 and the late Dr. Falconer, f.r.s., by General Sir William Codrington, k.c.b.. Governor 

 of Gibraltar. 



A series of Mammalian and other remains obtained in the exploration of Brixham Cave, 

 Torquay, and exhumed by the aid of grants from the Royal Society and the Baroness 

 Burdett Coutts ; described in the Phil. Trans. 1873, Vol. 163, part II., pi. xli-xlvii., 

 pp. 471-572. Forwarded by Professor Busk, f.r.s. Joseph Prestwich, Esq., f.r.s.', 

 F.G.S., &c.. Reporter. 



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